By: Sunlight

Once again we welcome our fellow freshmen into this prestigious University of Ibadan. I trust we all can tell from this past three weeks of learning that this is a very different system of learning compared to the ones we are used to prior to our admission into this great citadel of learning. POSSPRESS brings to us tips to ease academic stress and guarantee good success at the end of this academic session.

⏺️We should realize that this is an entirely different system and we should note that we might need a different approach or maybe a better approach to attaining success. This system requires extra effort, adding extra to whatever we might have been doing before to get an extra ordinary result. Don’t use secondary school reading pattern. You need to UPGRADE.

⏺️Don’t be ashamed to seek help when you are confused; we are now in a different facet of life, this is a phase we have not passed through before but we have people that have gone ahead of us. It is expected to be in need of help, so it is very important if we seek help and not too confident in our ignorance and make costly mistakes that affects our success at the end. You can walk up to senior colleagues to put you through and at the end you will be glad you did.

⏺️Avoid academic sluggishness. This is bound to happen to everyone, but we have to fight against such attitude. Sluggishness is operating slowly than usual and with less energy. This act will reduce our success rate. What should be ordinarily be done for an hour is now done for ten hours. This is absolute waste of time and resources.

⏺️Do not be in a haste to make friends. This is one of the biggest decisions you will make as a newly admitted student. Friends can make or mar your life. Take time to make friends that will affect you positively and push you to attain the best.

⏺️Manage your time properly. Time lost may never be regained. Time is the most valuable capital. A non- replaceable asset.
A day = 86,400 seconds
A week = 604,800 seconds
A month= 2,620,600 seconds
A year= 31,449,600 seconds
Life itself is in seconds!

⏺️Inhabit the following virtues; Discipline, Dedication, Determination. These virtues will go a long way to guarantee success in our life. If these virtues are applied diligently success is attainable.

⏺️Stay focused. Focus is the way to sustain your passion. Direct all your energy to ensure your goals are achievable. Focus is concentration of attention, when you expend all of your energy to your goal. Success is inevitable. According to Matthew Williams, the first key of success is concentration.

⏺️Learn to juggle your academics and work, business, relationship. Your primary assignment in this university is your academics. Every other thing can then follow. Do not allow any other activities to make your academics of less priority.

⏺️Do not neglect two- unit courses. Majority of us all place more attention on courses with more units and discard the ones of lesser units, this is definitely wrong. Every course is important and all are aimed at improving our Cumulative Grade Points. Those two units’ courses that we neglect are those termites that eat up our grades.

⏺️Attend classes. It is in attending classes you better understand what you would read on your own. Skipping classes is one of the dirty habits of students. There is no way one attend classes without gaining one or two things. Attending classes also fetches you marks.

⏺️Develop a personal relationship with God. It is only God that grants success, He is the one who crowns our efforts. Having God at our back helps us to be the best in all we do.

I WISH US ALL GOOD SUCCESS THIS ACADEMIC SESSION. SEE YOU ON THE OTHER SIDE. (SMILES)